Reports of Shots Fired on Potomac, Coast Guard Denies, Cites ‘Training Exercise’

Published September 11, 2009 1:35pm ET



Update: CNN mistakes audio from Coast Guard for the real thing, and reports it. The White House went after CNN, saying, “Before we report things like this, checking would be good.” Update: Sounds like a combination of extremely ill-advised military exercise and media misinterpretation of it led to the brief panic:

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